Flat File Accounting

The SAE software includes a default plug-in for writing accounting information to local files directly. The format of the local file is line oriented, where each accounting record is written to a single line and the values of each accounting record are separated by commas.

The attributes that are included in the file and their order can be configured. An exception is the first attribute, Accounting_status, which determines the type of the accounting record and is always the first attribute.

The first line of each accounting file contains the comma-separated list of attribute names.

Table 9 lists the available attributes.

 Table 9:  RADIUS accounting flat file attributes 

 RADIUS Accounting Attribute
 Notes

 Accounting_status

 Values are start, stop, or interim


 User_IP_Address

 IP address of client


 Accounting_ID

 Accounting ID, configured in subscriber entry in the directory


 Login_Name 

 User ID provided at login time


 Auth_User_ID

 User ID used for service authentication


 Terminate_Cause

 User-Request, Lost-Service (PPP hangup), Idle-Timeout, Session-Timeout, Admin-Reset


 Radius_Class

 Derived from service definition


 If_Radius_Class

 For PPP subscriber sessions, the RADIUS class attribute assigned to the PPP interface


 Service_Name

 Name of SAE service


 Service_Scope

 Name of service scope (virtual router in SDX software Release 3.1)


 Event_Time

 Timestamp


 Session_ID

 Unique identifier for user and service sessions


 If-Session_ID

 For PPP subscriber sessions, the session ID assigned by the JUNOSe router


 Port_ID

 Identification of subscriber interface


 Interface_Alias

 Alternate name of interface (CLI interface description)


 Interface_Descr

 Name of IP interface, format: IP <slot>/<port>[.<subinterface]


 Nasid

 Identification of JUNOSe router for accounting


 NAS_IP

 IP address of JUNOSe router


 SAE_HOST

 Hostname of SAE server


 In_Octets 

 Number of octets received from user


 Out_Octets 

 Number of octets sent to user


 In_Packets

 Number of IP packets received from user


 Out_Packets

 Number of IP packets sent to user


 Session_Time

 Length of session in seconds